The food and beverage market is front and center in the global fight towards achieving 100% sustainable packaging target. By incorporating sustainable additives into its PET packaging, the industry has the opportunity to push the needle on sustainability while promoting the circular economy. These sustainable additives can extend the performance of PET by protecting against food spoilage caused by oxygen pressure, UV radiation, visible light, and/or by-product migration. They can also help retain mechanical properties in packaging materials. As rPET usage increases in the industry, bottles will increasingly contain PET that has passed through the recycle loop two or more times.
To develop solutions that advance the multi-loop recycling of plastics, Avient has set up the CycleWorks innovation center to work on mechanical plastic recycling.
With rising EU-wide targets to incorporate greater quantities of recycled plastics in packaging items, solutions are required that improve the quality of recyclate so that higher usage PCR quantities can be utilized.
Plastic packaging requires a full design process – aesthetics, additives with consideration for a content’s shelf-life and now the addition of PCR content.
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